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Richmond

12 dossiers on record ·

The record for Richmond opens with Hollywood Cemetery and Tredegar Iron Works — 10 more files sit in the drawer below.

Cemetery
High confidence

Hollywood Cemetery

Richmond, Virginia

Cemetery associated with published local folklore.

3 claims · 2 legends→
Site
Medium

Tredegar Iron Works

Richmond, Virginia

The Confederate arsenal—the forge that armed the South.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Church
Medium

St. John’s Church (Richmond)

Richmond, Virginia

"Give me liberty or give me death"—the 1741 church on Church Hill.

2 claims · 2 legends→
House
Medium

Agecroft Hall

Richmond, Virginia

The 15th-century Tudor manor that crossed the Atlantic in 1925.

2 claims · 2 legends→
House
Medium

Wilton House

Richmond, Virginia

The 1753 Georgian on the James—moved 14 miles in 1933.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Mansion
Medium

Maymont

Richmond, Virginia

The Dooleys’ 1893 Gilded Age mansion—where the maid still serves.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Museum
Medium

Edgar Allan Poe Museum

Richmond, Virginia

The 1740 Old Stone House where Poe’s relics live—and the raven still calls.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Chimborazo Hospital site

Richmond, Virginia

The war’s largest hospital—76,000 patients on Church Hill.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Belle Isle

Richmond, Virginia

The island prison where 10,000 Union soldiers were held—1862-64.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Church
Medium

Historic St. John's Church

Richmond, Virginia

Church associated with published local folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Mansion
Medium

Tuckahoe Plantation

Richmond, Virginia

Thomas Jefferson’s boyhood home—the schoolhouse where he learned.

1 claim · 1 legend→
District
Medium

Jackson Ward

Richmond, Virginia

The "Harlem of the South"—Black Wall Street before the phrase.

1 claim→